英美报刊选读A Day of Terror.pptVIP

A Day of Terror: 11:30 AM Sept. 11, 2001 Recap 9.11, 2001 19 terrorists / hijacked four commercial jetliners / two of the planes / twin towers of the World Trade Center / a third plane / the Pentagon / the fourth airliner / intended to hit another target in the Washington, D.C. area / crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania . Let’s see a video clip World Trade Center (Twin Tower) Before 9.11 Clear Blue September Green trees sway in the fall breeze,There is laughter in the streets,Someone buys a hamburger and coffee,Children begin school as autumn emerges. I am on my way to work, Just a regular September day. Suddenly, planes crash angrily into 10,000 lives, Like a horror movie, smoke billows in the sky, And People run, hands splayed crying for help, Cacophony in the streets. A surreal darkness envelops the horizon,Has Armageddon arrived? Clear Blue September,A cool, crisp season of rebirth,Yet we were awakened to terror,Shocked out of our complacency. A solemnity rests upon our country, a mosaic of grief, We reach out and embrace Hope and Peace,With a heroic belief that despite the terror and loss of lives,We will survive. The casualty of the terrorist attack is estimated to 3000 people and shock the nation to its core. The impacts of 9.11 The terrorist attacks were intricately planned and carried out with precision. But what made them so devastating, physically and psychologically, was the way terrorist willing to sacrifice their lives swiftly turned unarmed civilian airplanes into guided missiles and left America with no obvious response. The new kamikazes of the 21st century bore no flags or markings. They hid behind ordinary citizens, and their targets included ordinary Americans. By hijacking civilian airliners and riding them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, they used the very accessibility of an open society to wound that society Nobody doubts America’s clear military superiority. But the lesson yesterday seemed to be t